Apple fires senior engineering program supervisor Ashley Gjøvik for allegedly leaking info

Apple has fired senior engineering program supervisor Ashley Gjøvik for allegedly violating the corporate’s guidelines towards leaking confidential info. For months, Gjøvik has been tweeting brazenly about allegations of harassment, surveillance, and office security.

“When I began raising workplace safety concerns in March, and nearly immediately faced retaliation and intimidation, I started preparing myself for something exactly like this to happen,” she says. “I’m disappointed that a company I have loved since I was a little girl would treat their employees this way.”

Gjøvik has raised issues that the Apple constructing her workplace is in is positioned on a superfund website, that means it requires particular oversight on account of historic waste contamination. She additionally says that she confronted harassment and bullying from her supervisor and members of her group. More lately, she’s begun elevating privateness issues associated to Apple’s insurance policies on the way it can search and surveil staff’ work telephones.

She was positioned on administrative depart in early August whereas Apple investigated a few of these issues — a placement she says she requested as a final resort.

A member of Apple’s worker relations group reached out to Gjøvik earlier immediately saying the corporate was trying right into a delicate mental property matter and needed to talk together with her throughout the hour. Gjøvik mentioned she needed to maintain all communications in writing, and famous she was forwarding the correspondence alongside to the NLRB, where she recently filed a charge. The worker relations consultant responded to say that as a result of she had chosen to not take part within the dialogue, they might transfer ahead with the knowledge that they had and — “given the seriousness of these allegations” — droop her entry to Apple techniques.

Hours later, Gjøvik obtained an electronic mail that her employment at Apple was being terminated, efficient tomorrow.